VHP Photo Glossary: More images of cinder cones

Photograph by C.D. Miller in
1982

Red Cones, Long Valley Caldera, California.

This cone is one of two cinder cones called the Red Cones, located
about 5 km south of Mammoth Mountain volcano and Long Valley
Caldera in California. These basaltic cones and associated lava
flows were erupted about 5,000 years ago.

Photograph by J.
Lowenstern

Mount Etna, Italy

This cinder cone on the flank of Mount Etna is surrounded by a
younger basaltic lava flow.

Photograph by A. Lockhart in
October 1994

Tavurvur, Rabaul Caldera, Papua New Guinea.

A small explosion from Tavurvur sends an eruption column
into the sky a few weeks after it began erupting on September 19,
1994. Lava erupted from the cone in October 1996 and flowed through
the breach in the crater (left center). Tavurvur is one of two
active cinder cones located on the margins of Rabaul Caldera
(for summary of recent activity, see activity
reports from the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism
Program).

Photograph by B.Y. Yount on 24
January 1984

Mount Veniaminof, Alaska.

Steam rises from the cinder cone within the caldera of Mount Veniaminof
in the final stages of an eruption in 1983-1984. Lava flows that spilled
down the side of the cone (dark areas) melted a pit in the summit ice cap
about 2.3 x 1 km in dimension.